glish Local Government (London, 1900),
in Temple Primer Series. The subject is treated
admirably in Lowell, Government of England, II.,
Chaps. 38-46, and a portion of it in W. B. Munro,
The Government of European Cities (New York, 1909),
Chap. 3 (full bibliography, pp. 395-402). There are
good sketches in Ashley, Local and Central
Government, Chaps. 1 and 5, and Marriott, English
Political Institutions, Chap. 13. A valuable group
of papers read at the First International Congress
of the Administrative Sciences, held at Brussels in
July, 1910, is printed in G. M. Harris, Problems of
Local Government (London, 1911). A useful
compendium of laws relating to city government is
C. Rawlinson, Municipal Corporation Acts, and Other
Enactments (9th ed., London, 1903). Two
appreciative surveys by American writers are A.
Shaw, Municipal Government in Great Britain (New
York, 1898) and F. Howe, The British City (New
York, 1907). On the subject of municipal trading
the reader may be referred to Lowell, Government of
England, II., Chap. 44; Lord Avebury, Municipal and
National Trading (London, 1907); L. Darwin,
Municipal Ownership in Great Britain (New York,
1906); G. B. Shaw, The Common Sense of Municipal
Trading (London, 1904); and C. Hugo,
Staedteverwaltung und Municipal-Socialismus in
England (Stuttgart, 1897). Among works on poor-law
administration may be mentioned T. A. Mackay,
History of the English Poor Law from 1834 to the
Present Time (New York, 1900); P. T. Aschrott and
H. P. Thomas, The English Poor Law System, Past and
Present (2d ed., London, 1902); and S. and B. Webb,
English Poor Law Policy (London, 1910). The best
treatise on educational administration is G.
Balfour, The Educational Systems of Great Britain
and Ireland (2d ed., London, 1904). Final